Boy, have you hit a hot button of mine!<br><br>But I think the research could profitably veer off a bit. Like there's only one federal Department of X, but shift the focus to local government agencies and things chang radically. Like there's like 4500 counties - not to mention towns - and they're ALL DOING THE SAME KIND OF APPLICATIONS. And they're ALL HURTING FOR $$$.<br>
<br>That shd be a prime target, but I've seen virtually zero interest in FOSS stuff so far in that world, and, in truth, there really is a support problem.<br><br>Case in point is our work in developing a F/OSS Computer-Assisted Dispatch application: (
See <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-cad">http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-cad</a> as well as <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/openises/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/openises/</a> ) <br>
<br>The bulk of interest in our CAD package has come largely from the HAM world, those folks oriented to supporting emergency comm's during crisis conditions. Surprisingly (to me, anyway) little from the career response shops like EMS.<br>
<br>But wait, there's more ... !<br><br>AS<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Tyler Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tylermitchell@shaw.ca">tylermitchell@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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From: Felicia Sullivan <<a href="mailto:felicia@oc-tech.org" target="_blank">felicia@oc-tech.org</a>><br>
Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:00 PM<br>
Subject: Can you help spread work to any FOSS developers you know<br>
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Perhaps some of you can help spread the word:<br>
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For wide distribution<br>
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I'm a PhD student in public policy at UMass Boston doing research on<br>
what motivates members of free and open source software communities.<br>
<br>
I'm looking at ways that public policy could increase the quantity and<br>
quality of contributions to free software and open source software<br>
(defined as projects with an approved open source license -<br>
<a href="http://opensource.org/" target="_blank">http://opensource.org/</a>).<br>
<br>
I have a professor that says if I can provide some convincing data on<br>
how to best support free and open source software, he thinks he can<br>
get the ideas on President Obama's desk. I am conducting a survey -<br>
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SA1BorCQ_2b9E6NSE_2bNCKavw_3d_3d" target="_blank">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SA1BorCQ_2b9E6NSE_2bNCKavw_3d_3d</a><br>
and I need over 500 responses by May 1st in order to answer my key<br>
research questions.<br>
<br>
One lucky respondent will have $100 donated to the FOSS project of their choice.<br>
<br>
Questions about this survey can be directed to me at<br>
<a href="mailto:felicia.sullivan@umb.edu" target="_blank">felicia.sullivan@umb.edu</a>. Thanks for your input.<br>
<br>
Acknowledgement<br>
<br>
I want to thank my FOSS developer go-to-guys -- Dan MacNeil, Peter<br>
Bull, Stéphane Alnet, and Bill de la Vega -- for providing critical<br>
feedback on this survey.<br>
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